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• There Will Be No New Books….

  I am the first to admit that volunteering in an Oxfam Book Shop is not necessarily the best of activities for someone who has resolved that there will be No New Books. But the other volunteers are so nice, and our customers are unbelievably lovely… And, of course, there are the books. I’m like a…

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  January 30, 2015

  A Game of Hide and Seek, Black Narcissus, Chaucer, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Oxfam, The Dud Avocado

• Camiknickers and Evening Dresses…

   Singing in the bath… Greer Garson starred in Julia Misbehaves, a film of the book which, apparently, altered the story considerably. I must admit, I find it difficult to imagine her as Julia. Julia, by marriage Mrs Packett, by courtesy Mrs Macdermot, lay in her bath singing the Marseillaise. Her fine robust contralto, however,…

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  January 28, 2015

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Nutmeg Tree

• A Historical Who-Dunnit!

    Way back in the summer when I was staying in Plymouth to kitten sit for my Elder Daughter I was intrigued by the sight of piles of books stacked on a table in Waterstones, surrounded by a little crowd of people, so I pushed my through to discover what was so interesting (OK, I…

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  January 7, 2015

  Giordano Bruno, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Plymouth, Sir Francis Drake, SJ Parris, Treason

• Short Story Sunday – on Monday!

  ‘There’s a man,’ Alice said. ‘She’s with a man.’ She scrubbed the bus window with a bunched-up brown glove. May sat down heavily beside her, still probing a blasted peppermint. She leaned forward, her menthol breath ruining all Alice’s work on the window. The duo are outraged because this is a tour for Retired Ladies,…

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  January 5, 2015

  Clare Boylan, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Some Retired Ladies on a Tour

• New Year, Resolutions and an Arthurian Sword

  It’s New Year’s Day… And here is the Wart, on New Year’s Day, pulling the Sword from the Stone in the Disney cartoon of the same name. The film was based on TH White’s The Once and Future King, Happy New Year Everyone! Since people seem to be making resolutions and planning for 2015 I feel as if…

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  January 1, 2015

  books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, New Year, Radio 4, resolutions, The Once and Future Kind